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KUZMIN MITROKHIN GAY RUSSIAN POETRY LIMITED EDITIO

[KUZMIN, Mikhail Alekseevich and Dmitrii Isidorovich MITROKHIN]. Sem portretov [Seven Portraits].

By Henri de Régnier. Petersburg: "Petropolis," 1921 [1920]. 38 pp., 8vo (226 x 165 mm). Translated from the French by M. A. Kuzmin. Illustrated by D. I. Mitrokhin. Printed by Golike and Wilborg. Decorated pink wrappers designed by D. I. Mitrokin. Condition: some soiling and wear, backstrip damaged. number 234 of 275 numbered copies. the last erotic book to be published under the soviet regime. Henri François Joseph de Régnier (1864-1936) was a major French Symbolist poet who influenced Kuzmin and his Russian contemporaries. Although Aubrey Beardsley most profoundly influenced Mitrokin, the Russian's comparatively chaste, naive art in this volume seems more in line with Matisse and the French boudoir painters.